Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-01

lnteres ling experiments with dynamite
guns were made at Fort Hamilton, New
York Harbor, on Saturday.
1t is reported that the Atchison road
has purchased of the st. Louis and San
Francisco its half interest in the Atlantic
and Pacific.
Mr.. William Il. Travers. well-known
and wealthy New York banker. died at
Bermuda March 10. The body reached
New York Sunday.
There was $4,000 fire at Al Broad
way, New York, Saturday evening.
Claremont, y. H., business firms suffered
a loss of $4,000 on Saturday.
Up to Saturday noon no additional bod
les had been found in the ruins of the
burned Richmond hotel at Buffalo. The
death list now numbers fifteen.
Nearly 30 true bills have been found bv
the Cook county (Ill.) grand jury against
the corrupt officials of the county. Over
wheming evidence is said to be at hand
which will secure speedy conviction
\ dispatch from Washington on Satur-
DAY to the New York World announced
that an eXtraditon treaty between the
nlted States and Russia has been signed
, by representatives of both governments.
Oscar Stearns. whom the President has
APP '.nted minister to Turkey. is a promi-
heht New \ ork merchant engaged in i'm
porting. He was president of the Cleve-
land and Hendricks Business Mems club
in lSS4
The executive board of the Irish Ma
tional league Of America has issued an
address to the American public asking
Tor protests against further coercing and
oppression on the part of the English
government.
Charles Williams. Is. fatally shot Rem
Jainlh Ball, 80, at Portsmouth. o.. Thurs
day. Ball had gone into Wiliamss
house to demonstrate against building a
bonfire near his premises when the boy
attacked him with a revolver.
Charles Speidel, the bookkeeper and
cashier of the clothing firm of C.. and :.
Warner New York city. is a defaulter
to the amount of Sl3.4O4. He was ar
rested, pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to five years imprisonment in Sing Sing.
Capt. Paul Boyton. the famous SWIM
mer. wa, picked up by steamer some
mics on the New Jersey coast on sun
day. lie had jumped overheard from n
schooner leaving New York harbor on
saturday for little ocean trip of his
own.
The commissioner of pensions, in a
weekly report to the secretary of the in
terror states that 2S7, 49, applications are
now before his office for adjudication.
Claims are being filed at the rate of 5000
a week and the final adjudications num-
berS about $500.
New Jerseys legislature continues to
be disgraceful circus. tuesday night
at a late hour the disorder eliminated in
one of the members rising and denoupc-
ing Speaker Corbn. with oathS, AS n liar.
The Democrats refused to compel re-
traction or apology.
y young woman from Portland. while
suffering mentally, leaped from the Shore
Line train Sunday afternoon not far from
Providence, and was followed bv her
mother, y years old, and neither was So
riously injured, Notwithstanding the train
was running Is miles an hour.
The captain of Nova Scotia fisbinp
craft, who is at Portland for the purpose
OF buying bait, speaks freely of the great
Inconvenience and actual loss which the
people of his country suffered last season
by the attitude of the Canadian govern
ment toward American fishermen,
new military order composed of men
who served in the late war has sprung
into existence in Philadelphia. 1t is
called the Union veteran legion, and TO
become member it is necessary to have
served two consecutive wears as an actual
enlisted soldier. Substitutes and drafted
men are excluded.
The schooner yacht Dauntless reached
Cork liarbor, Ire. at rs o'clock Mon
day evening, all her company being well
and the vessel in as good condition As
when she sailed. Her voyage consumed
10 days ! hour 43 minutes and Is seconds,
and considering the difference in size,
yachttmen hold that her defeat bv the
Coronet is nothing to be ashamed Of
Miss Clothilde Palms of Detroit. Mich,
daughter and joint heir with her brother,
Francis F. Palms, of the estate of the late
Francis Palms, has begun suit at Detroit
10 determine the terms of the will, a suit
which promises to be cause celebre.
The estate foots up S7,0OO,0OO Miss
Palms is the young woman with whom
Senator Jones of Florida was smitten.
Dispatches from various points in Hi